Exalted Trash Heap. The Electric Junk band is a very special sonic experience in the tradition of some of Baltimore's historic rock and roll jug bands like the "The Motor Morons," "Svexner Labs," and "Crab Feast." A mixture of science friction, hillbilly blues, and Hampden dirt-bike influences give this group a freshness that you may not anticipate or really know how to deal with. With Trevor Choflet, Eric Franklin, and Bob Wagner.

Old-Time Country Blues. Walker and Jay is a loosely organized conglomerate of family and friends. As a band, it carries a message of reckless abandon on the surface, while the deeper message is one of love and freedom in times of desperation and fear. All of this is delivered within the idiom of "old-time country music" or "banjo/fiddle mountain music" or "rural Americana" with shades of far eastern traditions and occasional experimental electronica. We sincerely hope that those who hear the music find it enjoyable, and would say they liked it if their opinions are solicited. However, we know that some people will like it while others will not, well, you can't expect everybody to like it...

Theatrical Electronic Music. "Crown of Forks" (Duncan Moore, John Prevas, Max Eilbacher, Alex Parlato) will be a tribute to you, the viewer, and your good taste in song and dance. Father Time, sacreligious rite and a baby pool full of ketchup: this musical revue will leave you breathless and wanting more!

Next World Minstrels. "We, The Santa Dads, create music through voice, multivocular technique, ukulele, trumpet, and the occasional french horn and organ. We create to express our philosophical, metaphysical, scientific, and religious understandings; more specifically, our perceptions, conceptions, and experience of existence, time, information, and the spirits. Namely, we are Joshua Kelberman & Connor Kizer" - The Santa Dads.

http://www.myspace.com/santadads

Maximum electric piano. Frequent composer and performer in The Financial Group, Pumphrey is a contemporary composer and a performer equally strong as saxophonist and pianist--often playing Fender Rhodes with extended techniques. His music has a dramatic quality and frequently uses repetition, surprise, and intense dynamics to make its point. He is a graduate of UMBC and a frequent participant in concerts of freely improvised music in Baltimore.

Avant-Garde Saxophone. Praised as "an inventive musician" (The New York Times) and a "sharp new-music saxophonist" (Time Out New York), Brian Sacawa has firmly established himself as an important contemporary voice for his instrument. Active internationally as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician, his versatile career has led to appearances ranging from the concert stage to club settings as well as the premieres of over 50 new works for saxophone by both established and emerging composers. Mr. Sacawa's critically acclaimed, Grammy-winning recordings can be heard on the Naxos, Innova, Equilibrium, and BiBimBop record labels. He is the co-founder of Hybrid Groove Project with composer/turntablist DJ Dubble8 and currently resides in the lush, rolling asphalt slopes of Bolton Hill in Baltimore, MD.

Electro-Acoustic Invocations. Peter Blasser and Carson Garhart compose a duo of electro-lute, devil's-tone organus, french horn, and jazz guitar. The jam will be rennaisance music, but truer to that form in the sense that tachyons travel in reverse time: the italian rennaisance is an "anti-echo" of the rennaisance that we will be performing. We have a third member who is androgynous in form, comparable to a "gray", who will not be here. So you can say that the music will be physically solar, a corpus not without organs, where we will confront the lunar intuition handed down by the masons in pattern and realized now in electronics. We will take song requests.

Abstract Sound and Light. "The Chromaccord is an instrument designed to manipulate kinetic color to invoke visual responses. It places an area of color (the object) on a background of another color (the surround). The instrument is performed by changing the color areas. An object/surround pattern has been used since the nineteenth century to demonstrate the effect of one color on another. By using such an arrangement, the chromaccord becomes a tool for exploring the visual experience of continually changing sequential and simultaneous contrasts." - Daniel Conrad

A new work by Baltimore's master cross-modality inventor, for pre-recorded invented instruments and live light organ. Conrad's work with "light as lyrical melody" and with contrary motion produced by long-string division are both here.